>Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw@...> wrote:
>...but consider this situation: I want to say that a chair weighs as
>much as an industrial microwave oven and is the color of wood
>(contrived example, I know, but bear with me).
>So, I have "clock weight-of-microwave used-in-restaurant and color-of-
>wood"
>To a listener, this is ambiguous: does "color-of-wood"
>modify "microwave" or "clock"?
To avoid the ambiguity can you not reverse the modifiers and say, at
least in this example, "clock color-of-wood and weight-of-microwave
used-in-restaurant"?
Must size description precede color description?
Charlie